Just what the world doesn’t need… another “video magazine.”  A combination of the Playboy Channel, Playboy Video magazine, and the Girls of Penthouse, Fannie pales in comparison.  Considering that the above-mentioned shows have crowded the market with mediocre eroticism, Fannie comes off dull and unimaginative.  Utilizing flashy, yet empty video effects and some of the least attractive women this side of a shot-on-video cheapie, Fannie is 60 minutes of unrelieved tedium.

Supposedly a “magazine for men,” Fannie features horoscopes (!), male fantasies, women with women, more horoscopes (!), and a pseudo-flashdance thrown in to use up some time.  In addition, the tape is sprinkled with some of the lamest parodies since Saturday Night Live (“women who wear Fannie No. 5” ha, ha) thereby filling the viewer with the desire to throw something very heavy at the television.  Erotic as a fish wrapped in yesterday’s newspaper, Fannie reinforces what I already knew; video magazines are for people who cannot read.